October, 2009

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Chromium and Linux sandboxing

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It was great to talk to so many people about Chromium security at HITB Malaysia. I was quite amused to be at a security conference and have a lot of conversations like: Me : What browser do you use? Other : Google Chrome. Me : Why is that? Other : Oh, it's so much faster. Me : Oh, you saw that awesome JSNES, huh? ( [link] ) It's a sobering reminder that users -- and even security experts -- are often making decisions on things like speed and stability.

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vsftpd-2.2.1 released

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Nothing too exciting, just two regressions fixed: "pasv_address" should work again, and SSL data connections should no longer fail after a long previous transfer or an extended idle period.

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HITB Malaysia 2009 and sandboxing

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No time for details at the moment, but I'm just back from HITB Malaysia and a great time was had by all! The hospitality and warmth of the organizing crew surpassed anything I've ever encountered before. I presented with my colleague Julien Tinnes. See awesome blog: [link] We presented on various intriguing aspects of sandboxing on Linux, covering vsftpd and Chromium as test cases.